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The fund’s strategic and impact-oriented LPs include big pharma names such as Pfizer, Bristol Myers Squibb, AARP and Alzheimer’s Research UK, which are excited by improved scientific understanding of dementia that promise to increase clinical trial successes.

Fund I’s limited partners include billionaire tech founders and prominent institutions.

The new fund, which is 25% larger than its debut, is backed by Isomer Capital, Exor NV's Lingotto, Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo, Grinnell College's Endowment, RSJ Investments and Aldea Ventures, Lunar says.

The aviation investment manager plans to raise a new fund that will build on JetBlue Ventures’ existing portfolio and expand founders’ access to more strategic relationships around the world.

LPs include family offices of digital entrepreneurs, industrial investors and former executives from businesses such as Yahoo Marketplace and Prisma AI, the firm says.

Other investors in Lakestar's second growth fund include family offices Italmobiliare and KOEHLER Group, government-related investment organization PFR Ventures, Sidley Austin Master Pension Trust and the Grantham Foundation.

'Crypto venture capital not only can sell to strategic like PayPal, or IPO when the IPO market opens, but also has a liquid token market, which offers an additional source of liquidity,' says Michael Steinberg of Reciprocal Ventures.

Managing partner Raj Singh explains the investment strategy of global property manager JLL's corporate venture fund.

Venture capital records better female representation at all levels of seniority: 23 percent of senior roles are held by women in VC firms against PE’s 13 percent, a new report says.

With market watchdogs looking more closely at private asset pricing, affiliate title Private Equity International spoke to managers of semi-liquid funds about their valuation methods.